The golden mouse is a small, climbing mouse of the Southeast, best known for the grapefruit-sized ball of leaves it weaves into vine tangles and canebrakes and uses as a nest. Louisiana holds just one record of it from 2000 onward, a single GBIF entry from Winn Parish in June.
One record can’t show a seasonal pattern or say where in the state the mouse is most at home. Winn Parish lies in the pine and hardwood hills of north-central Louisiana, the kind of wooded country with vine tangles and thick understory this mouse uses, but a lone entry says more about how rarely the species gets documented here than about its range.
NatureServe currently lists the golden mouse’s Louisiana status as unrankable, meaning there isn’t enough survey data to assign it a firm state rank. That fits a record this thin, since a mouse that spends much of its life off the ground in tangled, vine-heavy woods rarely turns up in casual observation.
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